I gotcha, thanks for presenting the relevant threads. I'm sure it was about as much as a pain in the a$$ for you to see the questions raised again, and pull the threads, as it is to not have such a simple function enabled on a 77K car. A 20k Nissan Altima performs the function without driver input. BassAckwards on this BMW

Well, a search turned up this as the latest thread on this question of night mode.

My 2009 E92 idrive has a check box to allow "night mode", but it appears to have no effect. The screen colors are uniformly gray on the navi.

I could have sworn that early on when I bought the car in Feb, the navi displayed a much richer palette of colors.

- Is this check box/feature useless, as per the above comments?
- Is a navi screen of a uniform gray background the norm?

I can snap a picture if it would help...thanks in advance...

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You are viewing the map in "traffic mode" which negates/overrides the night mode setting.

Ach so, could be. I'll check into that. Thanks.

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. Got it. I did RTFM a couple times but it was less than helpful lol. Thanks.

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Character does count. For too long we have gotten by in a society that says the only thing right is to get by and the only thing wrong is to get caught. Character is doing what's right when nobody is looking... " --J. C. Watts

You are viewing the map in "traffic mode" which negates/overrides the night mode setting.

This was the issue. Now in search of how to reprogram the "mode" button to switch between day and night mode.

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Character does count. For too long we have gotten by in a society that says the only thing right is to get by and the only thing wrong is to get caught. Character is doing what's right when nobody is looking... " --J. C. Watts

This was the issue. Now in search of how to reprogram the "mode" button to switch between day and night mode.

You gotta code it into the module and need the specific communcation program. I had mike benvo enable that in the menu, but it looks like there is a module or something that is needed beyond just enabling that option.